1.\" Copyright (c) 1986 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" From: @(#)slstat.8 6.8 (Berkeley) 6/20/91 33.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/slstat/slstat.8,v 1.14.2.2 2001/08/16 15:56:33 ru Exp $ 34.\" 35.Dd October 11, 1996 36.Dt SLSTAT 8 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm slstat 40.Nd report serial line IP statistics 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl i Ar interval 44.Op Fl vr 45.Op Ar unit 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47The 48.Nm 49utility 50reports certain kernel statistics kept about serial line internet 51protocol traffic. 52.Pp 53The options are as follows: 54.Bl -tag -width indent 55.It Fl i 56Repeat the display indefinitely every 57.Ar interval 58seconds. 59If no 60.Ar interval 61is specified, the default is 5 seconds. 62.It Fl v 63Verbose display of extra fields of information. 64.It Fl r 65Display all values in rate per second rather than amount per interval. 66.It Ar unit 67Is number specifying the 68.Tn SLIP 69interface, or a 70.Tn SLIP 71interface name. 72The default unit is 73.Sy 0 74for interface 75.Sy sl0 . 76.El 77.Pp 78By default, 79.Nm 80displays the following information: 81.Pp 82.Bl -tag -width indent 83.It in 84bytes received 85.It out 86bytes sent 87.It pack 88packets received or sent 89.It comp 90compressed packets received or sent 91.It uncomp 92uncompressed packets received or sent 93.It unknwn 94inbound packets of unknown type 95.It toss 96inbound packets tossed because of error 97.It other 98all other inbound or outbound ip packets 99.It err 100input or output errors 101.It search 102searches for connection state 103.It miss 104times we could not find a connection state 105.It coll 106collisions with end of clists. 107If you get many collisions (more than one or two 108a day) you probably do not have enough clists 109and you should increase 110.Dv nclist 111in param.c. 112.El 113.Sh EXAMPLES 114The command: 115.Dl slstat -i 5 116will print what the system is doing every five 117seconds. 118.Sh SEE ALSO 119.Xr fstat 1 , 120.Xr netstat 1 , 121.Xr nfsstat 1 , 122.Xr ps 1 , 123.Xr ststat 1 , 124.Xr iostat 8 , 125.Xr pppstats 8 , 126.Xr pstat 8 127.Pp 128The sections starting with ``Interpreting system activity'' in 129.%T "Installing and Operating 4.3BSD" . 130